Field Visit

Date 24 August 1943

Event ID 933033

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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RCAHMS Emergency Survey (Archaeology)

Grey Cairn, Glenurquhart

Due W of Glenurquhart farm, on the very highest point of the wide ridge that, running NE, terminates in the South Sutor, stands a cairn of naked stones rising some 8ft above the heather-clad moor but itself surmounted by a trig. survey station. The cairn has clearly been disturbed but perhaps only superficially. No chamber or cist is exposed. The naked pile forms an irregular figure about 80ft NE to SW by 60ft, but the spread of stones, including some that look rather like peristalith supports, extends over a space some 95ft by 75ft among the deep heather.

65ft E of the Grey Cairn is a low stony mound* about 60ft long by 33ft wide N to S. The whole is overgrown with peat and heather and over 3ft high but is distinctly stony.

Visited by RCAHMS (VGC) 24 August 1943

*this is almost certainly a reference to NH76SW 13, which lies about 65 ft (20m) to the west (GG, 9/12/21).